AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

Spirituality

For 2-3 days now during meditation I am getting glimpses of Gauri sitting in snowy mountain conditions with Shiva and their both sons (specially of Ganesha having more clear image) sending her blessings of auspiciousness. In this background please let me know your views on the significance of mount Kailash as the abode of Shiva and Shakti in our religion. I always wonder how a place on earth plane could be a home to the divine family🤨.

Gauri is the Divine Mother who has become this earth nature. Shiva is the Lord of tapasya who helps her to rise to the highest

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Sri Aurobindo has written-“…Whenever he chooses to take the full pleasure of ignorance, of the dualities, of strife and wrath and tears and weakness and selfishness, the tamasic and rajasic pleasures, of the play of the Kali in short, he dims the knowledge in India and puts her down into weakness and degradation so that she may retire into herself and not interfere with this movement of his Lila…”I am not able to understand these lines. How can Divine do this only for his Lila🤔? Please elaborate.

Lila means the Divine unfolding in creation. This unfolding sometimes requires the veiling of the Light just as some plants need shade and others brightness

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Now the question is, as a person dies, apart from the psychic being, what other things are carried to the next life and who carries them? The body  is not there, the psychic being goes to the psychic world. The vital goes to the vital world. The mental part goes to the mental world.  So, it is only the psychic that proceeds to the next birth. Then, while going to take the next birth, does the psychic collect certain elements from the vital and mental world? If yes,  how can it find its corresponding vital and mental which it had in the previous birth🤔?

The psychic being, as it evolves, develops an individual psychic personality around its core which of course is the divine spark within it. This psychic

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Hindus worship various gods and goddesses. Like Ganesha for success. Lakshmi for wealth. Durga for protection. Similarly, why is Shivalinga worshipped? As you mentioned yesterday, Shivalinga is a very powerful symbol of divine power working on earth. It is representative of the union of Shiva and Nature. So is Shivalinga worshiped to seek prosperity, nourishment, strength from Prakriti that is Parvati and wisdom, knowledge from Shiva🤔?

As to what one can ask is upto the one who is worshipping. As Sri Krishna says in the Gita that whatever god one worships

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I have a question on one of the verses of Mundaka upanishads 11) But they who in the forest follow after faith and self-discipline, calm and full of knowledge, living upon alms, cast from them the dust of their passions, and through the gate of the Sun they pass on there where is the Immortal, the Spirit, the Self undecaying and imperishable.

es and unfortunately this kind of teaching, whatever its merit to the individual seeking moksha, did much harm to the collective march of mankind and

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It will be of great help to me, Our Kuldevta is Shiva but I am more drawn towards Shakti – mainly in her form as Gauri and to some extent in her form as Durga. Shiva has many forms – benevolent as well as fierce so I worship him in his gracious form of Umapati – the householder as in this form I can worship both Shiva & Shakti with their child Ganesha. 🙏 [conti]

Unwavering faith in the Divine Mother (in whatever form you may feel drawn towards) is the single most important condition that takes care of the

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I am a 70-year-old religious man and I regularly watch and read your talks and answers. I don’t know why, but I find all your responses related to rituals and worship very rigid. According to you, these things don’t hold much importance, perhaps because they are not emphasized in your favorite text, the Gita. Step out of your air-conditioned drawing room and comfortable environment—only then will you understand the importance of worship and rituals, which are for common people who struggle daily even for basic needs😳. [conti]

But who is saying that one ‘should not do’ Pooja and rituals if one wants to or is naturally interested and attracted towards them? All

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